Welcome

I am Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics from the University of Rennes 1, in France. I am also a Senior Research Fellow with CREM (Center for Research in Economics and Management), a CNRS research team in economics and business. My research interests are wide, with a particular focus about behavioral economics applied to transport and urban economics in the recent years. More generally, I have interests in information economics and individual and group decision making, and also about public policy economic evaluation.In 2004, I created an experimental economics lab, the LABEX-EM, that I currently manage with David Masclet. During 2012 and 2013, I was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney Business School and at the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,University of New South Wales.

I had also a blog about economics, especially about behavioral economics, expeconomics, where you can find some reflexions or ideas about economic behavior in the current life, but it is no longer feeded (this blog is written in french). If you want to join me, here you will find my mail.

Research activities

My research fields are basically behavioral economics with applications to transport economics, urban economics, industrial
economics and public economics. One key question of my behavioral research is
about information impact concerning decision making processes for individuals or
groups. As a method, I use very often experimental economics as
you
will see in my recent papers. More recently, I had been investigating user equilibrium in traffic games with laboratory economic experiments. In the latest period, I investigated the relationship between location choices within a City and transport private and external costs for firms and households (LOCEX program, supported by the French Ministry of Sustainable Development, Ecology and Energy). Here you can find a short cv.

Time and Teams: An Experimental Study about Group Inter-temporal Choice (with Youenn Loheac)

Teaching activities

My main teachings relate to applied microeconomics (in particular transport economics), public economics and behavioral economics (experimental economics especially). In some of these courses, classroom games are used to illustrate theoretical analysis and to have some statistical data. Presently, my courses in the Department of Economics are the following:

Experimental Measures of Willingness-to-Pay / Willingness-to-Accept

Economic Geography and Urban Economics: An introduction,

Cost-Benefit Analysis,

Transport Economics,

Experimental Economics,

Transport Environmental Costs.

The Faculty of Economics will open at the next term in September, 2018, a brand new specialty of the Master GPLA (Production Management, Logistics and Purchasing), that I will manage. The name of this specialty is Sustainable Mobility Management, and you can find some useful information there (in french, sorry!):